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  1. America's Foremost Female Impersonators

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Aug. 15, 1953
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag queens, Night life
    Subject: Lee Leonard, Robin Raye
  2. Books

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Block, Martin
    Date: Aug. 1953
    Topics: Crossdressers, Electroshock therapy, Homosexuality, Lesbians
    Subject: Freud, Gordon Westwood, Society and the Homosexual
  3. Cheerio Club Presents America's Foremost Female Impersonators

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator:
    Date: Jan. 5, 1953
    Topics: Arts and entertainment occupations, Drag kings, Drag queens
    Subject: Lee Leonard, Robin Raye
  4. Christine to Play N.Y. With 'Miss' Billing, 5G

     
    Collection: Christine Jorgensen Collection
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Variety
    Date: Nov. 18, 1953
    Topics: Finances, Theatre shows, Trans women, Transgender people
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Latin Quarter, Miles Bell, Yates Artists Bureau
  5. Dear Gentlemen

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
    Creator: Sarua, Ot
    Date: May 1953
    Topics: Crossdressers, Crossdressing, Homosexuality, Transgender people, Transitioning (Gender)
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen
  6. I Live in Two Worlds.....: This top female impersonator sets the public right about its idea of his profession.

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Black, Phil
    Date: Oct. 1953
    Topics: African Americans, Female impersonators
    Description: In his article from "Our World", Phil Black details his rise as a black female impersonator in a historically white profession, including details of his private life, achievements, and ambitions. H...
  7. Lavender lads make woo! woo! Hallowe'en eve

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: The ArQuives
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1950 to circa 1980
    Topics: Crossdressers, Drag balls, Drag queens, Halloween (LGBTQ+ culture), Passing (Gender)
    Description: A newspaper article describing a queer celebration, focusing on the drag performers
  8. Male Shake Dancer Plans to Change Sex, Wed GI in Europe

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Jet
    Date: Jun. 18, 1953
    Topics: Actors, Black people, Classification of diseases, Dancers, Female impersonators, Gender realignment surgery, Hormone therapy, Law, Marriage, Medicalisation, Military, MtFs
    Subject: Charles Robert Brown
  9. Press Clipping about Christine Jorgensen

     
    Collection: Désirée Hafstad, Skeivopedia, and Kim Frieles Materials
    Institution: Skeivt arkiv
    Creator:
    Date: 1953
    Topics: Cartoons, Gender realignment surgery, Hormones, Transsexualism
    Subject: Christine Jorgensen, Lili Elbe, Magnus Hirschfeld
    Description: Cartoon drawing from a Norwegian newspaper showing three separate dressing rooms: a women’s dressing room, a men’s dressing room, and “Chris's dressing room”. Text below states: “As reported, C...
  10. Roberta Cowell in the Kitchen

     
    Collection: Transas City Photographs (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator:
    Date: circa 1945 to 1957
    Topics: Cooking, Kitchens, MtFs, Transgender people, Transsexual people, Women biographers
    Subject: Picture Post, Roberta Cowell
    Description: Below the photo the following quote appears: "'Cooking was unexpectedly exciting.'"
  11. Shake Dancer Postpones Sex Change For Face Lifting

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Jet
    Date: Aug. 6, 1953
    Topics: Black people, Dancers, Female impersonators, Gender realignment surgery, Marriage, Military, Plastic surgery
    Subject: Charles Robert Brown
  12. Story of My Life (February 15, 1953)

     
    Collection: Christine Jorgensen Collection
    Institution: Louise Lawrence Transgender Archive
    Creator: Jorgensen, Chrsitine
    Date: Feb. 15, 1953
    Topics: Family members, Femininities, Gender dysphoria, Gender role, Hospitals, Parents of transgender people, Physicians, Trans women, Transgender people
  13. Tax Snag Halts Male Dancer's Trip For Sex Change

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: Transas City
    Creator: Jet
    Date: Oct. 15, 1953
    Topics: Black people, Dancers, Gender realignment surgery, Marriage, Military, MtFs, National government
    Subject: Charles Robert Brown
  14. The Carroll Revue

     
    Collection: Newspaper and Periodical Clippings (1950-2000)
    Institution: JD Doyle Archives
    Creator: Fairbanks Daily News
    Date: Nov. 21, 1953
    Topics: Entertainers, Female impersonators
    Subject: Bobby Raye, Carroll, Judy Merrill, Kara Montez, Lee Leonard, Ozzie Bieglow, Rendezvous, The Carroll Revue
  15. Walter Hart Scrapbook

     
    Collection: Scrapbooks and Albums
    Institution: GLBT Historical Society
    Creator: Hart, Walter
    Date: circa 1930 to 1978
    Topics: Comedians, Drag performers, Drag shows, Female impersonators, LGBTQ+ clubs, LGBTQ+ musicians, Mothers of LGBTQ+ people, Revues, World War, 1939-1945
    Subject: Club 365, Finocchio's Club, Frank Doran, Freddy Renault, Gay Nineties, Ida Re'Velle, Jackie Maye, La Fiesta, Mae West, Music Box Theatre, Nicki Gallucci, Ray Bourbon, Sophie Tucker, Walter Hart
    Description: This scrapbook documents the career and social life of Walter Hart, a female impersonator who headlined at Finocchio's nightclub in San Francisco between the 1930s and 1950s. Scrapbook pages includ...